Swatch Infinity - Cool new watch

February 4, 2007 | Links

I saw a cool watch the other day that is actually a tiny mp3 player with an lcd screen that can be used to tell the time. It also uses the usb attachment as a clasp to hold the watch on, which I thought was a nice idea. Anyway I thought it looked very cool, but having an mp3 player that’s all I thought.

A couple of days later I saw the watch pictured below.

That thing is brilliant. Obviously I have heard of swatch but I’ve never thought of them as doing something like this. The watch has a watch (obviously) an mp3 player, a camera (video recorder), and a photo album, built in. I have yet to find any actual information about the watch apart from what is on the linked blog. There is nothing on the swatch website that I can see so I wonder if it’s …

Harry Potter fanfic

February 2, 2007 | Links

The BBC are reporting on Francisca Solar, a 23 year old lady from Chile, who wrote a Harry Potter fanfic - a sequel to the 5th book, Order of the Pheonix, it is called “Harry Potter and the Decline of the High Elves” and tells the story the way she thought it should be told.

The story ended up becoming massively popular and Francisca now has a deal for a trilogy of books, of which the first has just been completed, based on her own original stories.

Unfortunately the Harry Potter story is in Spanish, so I can’t read it but if anybody knows of an English translation I would love to hear about it. Something else to note is that the “fanfic”, which normally means a short story, is actually longer than the book it’s based on! If anyone knows any more about this I would be interested to …

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows release date announced

February 1, 2007 | Harry Potter, Links

Yes - I know I am old enough to know better, but frankly I don’t care - so here we go…

The date for the final Harry Potter book has been announced! We will all be able to find out exactly what happens to Harry, Ron , Hermione and the rest of the gang on… (drum roll please) …

21st July 2007 at 00:01

Now back to talking about all the rumors that are flying around.

Oh - and it will be called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (I never mentioned that before).

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